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Ripertoli Wine Adventures
Bi-annual trips to the Tuscan countryside that surrounds Greve-in-Chianti and Panzano-in-Chianti where our friends Nigel Tully and Deborah Cunningham have their 1000 year old farm, Ripertoli.
Dave Jackson & his wife Kathy will be your hosts while the local people who know the roads and the best places to go, guide you through the wine and food of the Chianti wine region. The trips will be scheduled in the spring to see the vineyards awakening for the year, and in the fall when the grapes and olives are almost ready for harvest.
6 months apart over the Rockies - On the left in January a portrait by a passenger, on the right a self-portrait. UVZ has neither an effective heater nor air vent.
Distraction
Distraction is the diversion of attention of an individual or group. According to philosopher Damon Young, distraction is chiefly an inability to identify, attend to or attain what is valuable. So the question really is - what should we be paying attention to and what is a distraction?
Jan & Dave at Emerald Lake
Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty - not destroy it!
- Yuri Gagarin, 1st person in space
I had as comrades in my [World War I army] section men whose names were: Cameron, Kimora, English, Gleidenstein, de Chapin, O'Shaughnessy. We didn't fall in or fall out as Irish Canadians, French Canadians, Dutch Canadians, Japanese Canadians. We wore the same uniform, with the same maple leaf badge, and we were proud to be known as Canadians, to serve as Canadians and to die, if it had to be, as Canadians.
-- Lester B. Pearson
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